Yoko (TV series) facts for kids
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| Genre | Adventure Comedy Short film Children education |
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| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 96 (list of episodes) |
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| Original release | November 13, 2015 |
Yoko is an exciting 3D animated TV series from Spain and Russia. It's an adventure and comedy show that also teaches kids new things. The series first came out in 2015. While it was originally made for younger children (preschoolers), its fun stories about outdoor play and imagination are enjoyed by many.
This show is special because it was the first animated TV series ever made together by Russia and Spain. The main idea for Yoko came from Juanjo Elordi in the Basque Country. The story is about three friends, Mai, Oto, and Vik, who meet a magical creature named Yoko. Yoko helps them turn their everyday outdoor games into amazing adventures. The show encourages kids to play outside and use their imagination. Yoko has even won awards for being an "Animated Series with Highest International Potential."
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Discover the World of Yoko
The series follows the exciting adventures of Mai, Oto, and Vik, along with their magical friend, Yoko. Yoko is a special forest creature who only appears to children who love to play outside with all their heart. When the kids play with lots of energy, Yoko gets curious and joins in. He takes their normal games, like "tag," and makes them extraordinary. Imagine a game of tag suddenly turning into a rocket race in outer space! Their adventures happen in all sorts of cool places, making every episode a new surprise.
Meet the Characters
Yoko: The Spirit of Play
Yoko is a super friendly magical creature. He looks like a big yellow giant with bunny ears. Yoko used to live in the park before buildings and people came. He communicates in a unique way, mostly by making sounds and gestures, and saying "Yoko" in many different tones. But somehow, Oto, Vik, and Mai always understand him! Yoko is very old in human years but young in Yoko years. He acts like a playful child, full of surprises and emotions. Granny, a character in the show, says that "Yoko only appears to children who love to play." Yoko uses his magic to change things around, like making a cloud rain in one spot or freezing a lake.
Vik: The Smart Planner
Vik is 6 years old and often the most sensible of the group. He's the smartest and knows a lot about game rules. Sometimes he finds it hard when things change suddenly, but once he understands, he's great at playing his role. Vik has brown hair, brown eyes, and tan skin. He's a dependable friend who likes peace and quiet. Loud noises and big changes can make him nervous. Vik is usually the one to say "time out!" when things get too wild.
Mai: The Nature Lover
Mai is 4 years old and has a very sweet personality. She's the only girl in the group of friends. Mai loves everything about nature in the park, like flowers and trees. She has pink hair, green eyes, and fair skin. Mai talks a lot and thinks she's an expert on many things. She likes to be prepared and always has her four-wheeled pull cart nearby.
Oto: The Energetic Adventurer
Oto is a lively 5-year-old. He's the most energetic, a bit mischievous, and loves anything to do with sports and active play. He has blue hair, blue eyes, and reddish skin. Oto is perfect for outdoor games. He enjoys digging, climbing, and exploring. Nothing can stop his excitement for long! When a game starts, his creative ideas make exciting roles and scenarios for everyone. Oto is usually the last one to want to go home.
Ranger Loops: The Park Protector
Ranger Loops is the park ranger and a very important person in City Park. She makes sure everyone follows the rules and keeps the park tidy. She's enthusiastic and loves to lead kids in fun activities like smelling flowers and making animal calls. Ranger Loops also plays the banjo and sings short songs about park rules and interesting nature facts. She takes care of the park and enjoys talking with the children. From the park's recreation house, she gives out sports gear, costumes, and art supplies to the kids.
Voice Actors
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| Oto (Russian: Митя, romanized: Mitya) | Eileen Stevens | Vladimir Voityuk (Season 1)
Stepan Sereda (Season 2) |
Eva Ojanguren |
| Mai (Russian: Майя, romanized: Maya) | Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld | Vasilisa Eldarova (Season 1)
Alisa Efimenko (Season 2) |
Jaione Intxausti |
| Vik (Russian: Вик, romanized: Vik) | Sarah Natochenny | Archipp Lebedev (Episode 40-52)
Andrey Yanayt Tikhon Efimenko |
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| Ranger Loops (Russian: Тётя Маша, romanized: Aunt Masha) | Eileen Stevens | Eva Ojanguren | |
| Yoko (Russian: Йоко, romanized: Yoko) | Tyler Bunch | ||
How Yoko Was Made
Bringing Yoko to Life
The idea for Yoko came from Juanjo Elordi, a director from the Basque Country in Spain. He had worked on other animated films before. In 2011, he realized there weren't many children's shows about outdoor play, especially in his region. So, he decided to create a project focusing on the benefits of playing outside and how kids interact with city environments. This led to the character Yoko.
Spanish animation companies Somuga and Dibulitoon teamed up with Wizart Animation from Russia to create the Yoko TV series. While the initial idea was Spanish, the script was developed by a team from all the studios. This made Yoko the first animated co-production between Russia and Spain.
The animators faced a fun challenge: making the characters' limbs bend in a unique way because they were designed with square shapes. They created a special animated "muscular curve" to make the characters move smoothly. The show was made for children aged 4–6 years old, with each episode lasting 12 minutes. Yoko, the main character, is a forest dweller who only says "Yoko," which means "game" in Basque. He's also special because adults can't see him, but children can!
The creators wanted the show to encourage kids to play outside. One director said there would be a short game at the end of each episode, mixing games from different cultures. This was meant to inspire children to "break away from tablets and computers" and play in the park with friends. Andy Yerkes, who worked on shows like Pocoyo, was also one of the creators.
Yoko was shown at big international events like MIPCOM in 2014 and MIPJunior in 2015. It received a lot of interest from buyers around the world. The first season, with 52 episodes, premiered in Russia in late 2016 on channels like CTC and Carousel. In Spain, it aired on RTVE's CLAN TV. A movie based on the series, called Yoko and His Friends, was also released in 2015.
Sharing Yoko with the World
After its successful launch, Yoko started broadcasting in many countries. Jetpack Distributions, a company that shares entertainment globally, helped distribute the series. In March 2017, the show began airing in Canada on BBC Knowledge, in Portugal on Canal Panda, and in India and Sri Lanka on Sun TV. It also came to Nick Jr. in Italy.
In February 2018, Jetpack Distributor made a deal with Netflix to bring Yoko to new countries, including the U.S. and the United Kingdom. The CEO of Jetpack Distribution, Dominic Gardiner, said that Yoko has a "mass global appeal" because it has magic and adventure, and it teaches kids about the value of play. The show also started airing in China on Tencent and in Latin America and the Caribbean on Nat Geo Kids.
In July 2018, the animation studios announced they were working on a second season of Yoko. This new season was released in Autumn 2018, and in Russia, it debuted in October 2019. In April 2020, a spin-off series called Maya Knows was launched. In this show, Maya and Yoko explain interesting facts about the world to children in short, educational episodes. Today, Yoko is shown in over 60 countries worldwide!
Episode Guide
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| 1 | 52 | 12 September 2016 | 8 November 2016 | |
| 2 | 14 | 22 July 2019 | 22 October 2019 | |
| 3 | 13 | 30 April 2020 | 26 October 2020 | |
Season 1 (2016) Episodes
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| 1 | 1 | "First Day" | Juanjo Elordi | Edorta Barruetabeña | 12 September 2016 | |
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Vik remembers the day he met Oto, Mai and Yoko. It's the park opening, and, being shy, Vik is avoiding all the other kids. Oto and Mai invite him to play trains with them. At first, they're just three kids playing trains, but something strange starts to happen; all at once, the three kids find themselves inside a "real" train zooming through the park, and taking off into outer space. They reach a planet where, finally, they meet Yoko, the magical author of their adventure.
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| 2 | 2 | "The Monster Of Lake Wawa" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Evgenia Golubeva | 13 September 2016 | |
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When Mai loses her badminton racquet in the Lake, Ranger Loops tells the children the legend of the Monster of Lake Wawa. "Don't worry, it's just a story," she tells them. But together with Yoko they go on an underwater quest in order to find out what the monster looks like. After several close calls, and findin something mysterious they finally find the monster, and discover it's not a monster at all - it's the "monster" that's been helping them on their journey.
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| 3 | 3 | "Patty Loops" | Unknown | Cristina Broquetas | 14 September 2016 | |
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Ranger Loops brings her niece, Patty, to spend the day in the park. The kidS are excited to spend the day with her, but Patty doesn't seem so sure. And the harder they try to get Patty to play with them, the less sure she seems. They're determined, however, and with Yoko's magical help, they do their best to impress the new kid.
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| 4 | 4 | "Camp Out!" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Cristina Broquetas | 15 September 2016 | |
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Today the kids decide to pretend that they're camping. It all seems like fun at first, until Mai's very specific ideas about that begin to get in the way. Oto, Vik, and specially Yoko seem unable to follow her "rules."
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| 5 | 5 | "It's Mai Castle" | Unknown | Leo Murzenko | 16 September 2016 | |
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Mai works hard building a great sandcastle that she'd just like to protect it from getting wrecked. Thanks to Yoko's magic, Mai gets to have her castle all to herself - and it's life size. Very quickly, however, she begins to miss her friends. The only problem is, in their desperation to keep the castle safe, Yoko hasn't included a way in - or out. In the end, it'll take their combined imaginations to find a way out of Mai's castle.
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| 6 | 6 | "Don't Touch" | Juanjo Elordi | Edorta Barruetabeña | 19 September 2016 | |
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Vik brings his brand new ball to the park. The friends are excited to play with it, but it's so beautiful that he doesn't want anyone touching it. Oto and Mai think that if they can just somehow get Vik to kick the ball with them, Vik will realize that he also wants to play. The teams starts a game in which Yoko uses his magic to build sophisticate security systems.
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| 7 | 7 | "Rocket to the Moon" | Juanjo Elordi | P.Kevin Strader | 20 September 2016 | |
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Oto decides the gang will play Tag today. Oto corners Mai on the climbing tower. Yoko magically turns the climbing tower into a spaceship and Mai does indeed fly into space. Yoko turns a tree into a super-fast rocket. With Vik and Yoko aboard, Oto's pursues Mai's at high speeds in and out of clouds and to the moon. Then, the ships zoom into a hale of asteroids.
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| 8 | 8 | "The Treasure of Yoko Park" | Juanjo Elordi, Alexey Medvedev, and Alexey Minchenok | Andy Yerkes | 21 September 2016 | |
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Oto, Vik and Mai are playing pirates today. Oto is ever the swashbuckler, Vik is into the ships, while Mai thinks it's all about the eye patches. When Yoko produces an interactive, magical map - there's one thing they can all agree on. Being a pirate is all about The Treasure.
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| 9 | 9 | "Red Litter Day" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Leo Murzenko | 22 September 2016 | |
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The kids head to the beautiful Meadow Gigantico to play tag - when they discover the meadow isn't all that beautiful anymore. Overnight somebody has completely trashed the place - and now the park's most pristine corner is covered with garbage. Ranger Loops will never have a chance to clean it up all by herself. With Yoko's help the clean up turns into a game that leads to something different from their initial expectations, including finding out who caused that mess in the first place.
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| 10 | 10 | "Broken" | Juano Elordi | Edorta Barruetabeña | 23 September 2016 | |
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Ranger Loops is preparing a box of old items for recycling. Mai suggests playing with some of the broken toys in the box before they are delivered, but Oto thinks that it is silly playing with broken toys. Yoko feels badly for the broken toys, so he makes his magic and turns the three friends into the broken toys themselves, while he takes the shape of the old box.
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| 11 | 11 | "Hiding in Plain Sight" | Unknown | P.Kevin Strader | 26 September 2016 | |
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Mr. Tuttle, a special zoologist, visits Yoko Park. He believes there are strange and unusual creatures in the world that have yet to be discovered. The kids are quite concerned that Tuttle will discover Yoko and take him to a special zoo.
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| 12 | 12 | "Vik on Ice" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | P.Kevin Strader | 27 September 2016 | |
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Vik doesn't seem to enjoy playing in the snow quite as much as Mai, Oto and Yoko. He doesn't know how to play any winter sports. Everyone thinks ice-skating will be the right winter sport for Vik. At the lake, tVik learns the basics of skating.
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| 13 | 13 | "Vik Plays with Others" | Juanjo Elordi | Edorta Barruetabeña | 28 September 2016 | |
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Oto and Mai walk to the meadow, where they are supposed to meet Vik. But from the distance they see that their friend is playing blind-man's bluff with other kids. Yoko appears and Mai and Otto play an incredible Red Light Green Light game to attract Vik. One by one they attract all the kids that are playing with Vik, except Vik, who keeps waiting in the meadows.
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| 14 | 14 | "Winner Wonderland" | Unknown | Evgenia Golubeva | 29 September 2016 | |
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It's the summer. Yoko's not having it; he creates a Winter Wonderland and the "Race to the Pole" begins. It's Yoko and the children against a team of squirrels. It's all about winter sports. But in the end, the winner is not anyone they're expecting.
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| 15 | 15 | "The Perfect Pet" | Unknown | Evgenia Golubeva | 30 September 2016 | |
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Mai, Oto, and Vik are talking about pets. They would all really like one, but Ranger Loops warns them that pets are "a big responsibility," which is, of course, exactly what their parents are always saying. The ranger suggests they try drawing some pets instead. They each draw their "perfect pet" - a cat, a parrot and a unicorn. And Yoko, inspired, turns a nearby sparrow into a wild and wonderful hybrid of all three.
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| 16 | 16 | "The Best Dinosaur" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Evgenia Golubeva | 3 October 2016 | |
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Mai, Vik and Oto are playing with little plastic dinosaur toys in the park's sandbox. When Yoko joins the game, he makes the toys real dinosaur size animals and transforms the whole park into Jurassic land. But the children get competitive, determined to figure out whose dinosaur is the best.
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| 17 | 17 | "Paper Planes" | Unknown | Leo Murzenko | 4 October 2016 | |
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Oto, Vik and Mai are all having a great time making and flying paper airplanes in the park today. Vik's does tricks, Oto's goes fast. Mai is insecure about the plane she's made, but they all quickly recognize that her plane is the only one that can truly do it all.
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| 18 | 18 | "The Colours" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Evgenia Golubeva | 5 October 2016 | |
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Ranger Loops has given the children a task - paint a birdhouse she's just finished making. The kids are excited, but soon run into a problem. They can't agree which colour to paint it. One wants yellow, one red, and one blue. When Yoko joins them, they decide on a contest to see which color they'll paint it.
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| 19 | 19 | "Yoko 500" | Unknown | Leo Murzenko | 6 October 2016 | |
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Vik, Oto and Mai determine that today, they're going to have a race in the park. Each of them brags that they're sure to be the winner. But when Yoko takes their race to a whole new level with vehicles that mirror each of their points of view on the race, they're put to a serious test, and they have to choose between winning at any cost and helping their friends.
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| 20 | 20 | "The Rainy Day Adventure" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Evgenia Golubeva | 7 October 2016 | |
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It's raining. The children hide in Ranger Loops's house and are bored. Vic found table games - Caramels, Hills and stairs, chess. Oto and Mai are sure that it will be uninteresting, but then Yoko appears and turns everything into a real adventure. Children get into the game, and the day passes a lot of fun, despite the weather.
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| 21 | 21 | "The Pyramid Adventure" | Unknown | Evgenia Golubeva | 10 October 2016 | |
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Oto and Vik are playing heroes, and they're continually casting Mai in the role of "damsel in distress." But Mai wants to be a hero as well. And when Yoko brings their adventure to life with a huge Pyramid complete with Indiana Jones-like booby traps and mummies, the boys quickly find out that Mai can be a hero as well.
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| 22 | 22 | "The Robot" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Evgenia Golubeva | 11 October 2016 | |
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The children promised Ranger Loops they would create a flowerbed for the upcoming flower festival and, just fooling around, Vik invents a robot to "help" them. Unfortunately it's made of cardboard, and isn't much help at all - Until Yoko comes and makes it the best "Helpbot" in the whole universe ever. Things go awry as Helpbot's "programming" makes him do absolutely everything for the kids - including play. In the end, they decide to redo the flowerbed.
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| 23 | 23 | "Small Safari" | Unknown | Sarah Graham Hayes | 3 October 2016 | |
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Mai brought her camera to the park, and she wants to play Safari today. Ranger Loops thinks this is a great idea, and encourages them to find all the different types of wildlife in the park. The three friends set out together, but to their dismay, they seem to run out of animals to observe very quickly. There are squirrels, ravens, a few ducks.
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| 24 | 24 | "The Little Things" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Evgenia Golubeva | 13 October 2016 | |
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Mai, Oto and Vik think they've played everything there is to play in the park. They get bored, idly pushing toys around in the sandbox. But when they lose their toy, Yoko arrives to help. He scales the children down and off they go to find their little toy car. But Yoko gets distracted and loses sight of them. The children and Yoko end up on a crazy adventure with huge squirrels, races in the desert, and being lost in a jungle of grass.
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| 25 | 25 | "Big Dress Up" | Unknown | Evgenia Golubeva | 14 October 2016 | |
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Vik is particularly nervous and over-cautious today. When Ranger Loops gets out a box of old costumes for the children, dress up time begins, and it turns out that Archeologist Vik, Knight Vik and Superhero Vik is willing to try just about anything until he realizes that clothes do not make the man.
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| 26 | 26 | "Circus, Circus" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Evgenia Golubeva | 16 October 2016 | |
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Vik comes up with the idea to play circus. Mai, Oto, and Yoko are very keen on it, and each of them finds a perfect role, except Vik. He tries and tries to find something he can do, but he just keeps failing. Luckily, when things start to go wrong in the performance, Vik discovers the circus thing he is good at.
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| 27 | 27 | "Cowboys in Yoko Park" | Unknown | Evgenia Golubeva | 16 October 2016 | |
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Ranger Loops has a big surprise in the park today: a petting zoo. When the truck arrives with the animals, Loops asks the children to look after things for a moment while she goes to the shed to gather some necessary supplies, as a busload of children is about to come for a visit. But as soon as Loops is gone, Yoko allows the animals to escape. The kids are in a panic, and Yoko, fun-loving as ever, uses his magic to turn the whole situation into a full-on cowboy and cowgirl adventure.
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| 28 | 28 | "Roll with IT" | Unknown | Edorta Barruetabeña | 16 October 2016 | |
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The three kids play house with Yoko. As soon as they start playing the three boys start changing everything around, putting the house in crazy places and mixing everything up: at first they propose playing cowboy house, then it is space house; later, they want to play pirate house.
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| 29 | 29 | "Happy Birthday, Yoko" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Evgenia Golubeva | 17 October 2016 | |
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The kids realize that Yoko has never celebrated his Birthday. Mai, Oto and Vik decide to throw him a proper party but keeping it as a secret. The problem is that they are not sure that the present will be good enough, because it is something made by them. Finally when the surprise is revealed and Yoko's Birthday is in full swing, Yoko opens his present.
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| 30 | 30 | "My Craft" | Juanjo Elordi | Edorta Barruetabeña | 18 October 2016 | |
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Everybody's making "sandcastles" in the sandbox. Oto tries to make a building but he goes so quickly that the building collapses again and again. Vik and Mai are more patient and they build beautiful buildings, going step by step. Yoko uses his magic, providing the kids with a magic spade that can build gigantic buildings.
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| 31 | 31 | "Storybook Ending" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Edorta Barruetabeña | 19 October 2016 | |
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Mai arrives in the park carrying a brand new storybook, filled with" the most wonderful tales." She asks Vik, who's the best reader, to read them all a tale. Vik and Yoko are mesmerized by the book, but Oto can't believe they're wasting their time in the park reading instead of playing.
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| 32 | 32 | "The Biggest Kite" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Cristina Broquetas | 20 October 2016 | |
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Oto goes to the park with his little cousin Tom. As the older cousin, Oto is put in charge. Since it's a rather windy day, they decide to build and fly some kites. Oto, Mai and Vik build some big ones because they think "bigger is better," but Tom, who has to use whatever is leftover, builds a tiny kite of his own. Once Yoko's magic is triggered, the kites become gliders and the kids spend their afternoon flying on the sky.
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| 33 | 33 | "A Big Fat Mistery" | Juanjo Elordi | Cristina Broquetas | 21 October 2016 | |
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Lately, the Ravens are acting funny: they are so fat they can't even fly. It seems like somebody has been feeding them. Oto, Vik and Mai decide to investigate this mystery helped by Yoko, who makes them look like real detectives. After questioning some suspects and witnesses and examining some clues, they discover the culprit was Oto. The Ravens were eating the popcorn he couldn't finish - every single day.
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| 34 | 34 | "Mai's Wagon" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Cristina Broquetas | 23 October 2016 | |
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Vik, Oto, and Yoko start to play with the wagon. Then they break the wagon. Using Yoko's magic, they go from fantasy to fantasy trying to keep the truth from Mai. Finally they decide to tell her the truth.
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| 35 | 35 | "Tree of Life" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Sarah Graham Hayes | 24 October 2016 | |
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When a tree in the park is threatened, Yoko helps the kids to see that multiple animals would be affected by its loss. The kids "play" squirrels, birds and fish, and learn the value of each and every tree in the park, and a lesson about how we are connected to the natural world.
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| 36 | 36 | "Castaway" | Unknown | Evgenia Golubeva | 25 October 2016 | |
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Oto stomps off, determined to do what he wants to do, all by himself. He heads off on an imaginative sea adventure, but he ends up stuck on a desert island all by himself. At first it seems like fun, but very quickly he discovers that he misses his friends. Even the company of a funny coconut can't replace them. It's much more fun to play together.
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| 37 | 37 | "Happy Next Birthday!" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | P.Kevin Strader | 26 October 2016 | |
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For Vik's sixth birthday Oto and Mai surprise him with a basketball-themed party -- a game Vik thinks he knows a lot about. They form a team: The Yoko Park Cows.
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| 38 | 38 | "Yoko's Computer Game" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | P.Kevin Strader | 28 October 2016 | |
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Yoko appears in the park, ready to play - only to find the kids playing a game on Oto's computer tablet called PLAY IN THE PARK. When the computer starts to act up, Yoko volunteers to "fix it". But what he really does is make the kids believe he's magically put them INSIDE the computer game.
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| 39 | 39 | "Grownups" | Juanjo Elordi, Maialen Sarasua Oliden | Edorta Barruetabeña | 28 October 2016 | |
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Yoko's magic transports the three kids to an office, where they find themselves trapped in a bureaucratic loop with Yoko as a crazy boss due to a misunderstanding of what a grownup is. In the end, they must reconnect Yoko with his more playful self.
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| 40 | 40 | "The Cool Spies" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | P.Kevin Strader | 31 October 2016 | |
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Oto and Mai are determined to play an exciting, high-energy game today. Though he has an idea about what he wants to play, Vik feels his idea is not as good, and he goes off without telling his friend what his idea was. Oto and Mai, curious as always, think of another game. They'll be spies.
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| 41 | 41 | "All Together Now" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Craig Carlisle | 1 November 2016 | |
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When Ranger Loops gives Vik and Mai some musical instruments, the two are soon making music and dreaming forming a soon-to-be-famous band. But they can't do this without Oto. Oto, however, has no interest, claiming to not like music until he finally admits that he loves music.
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| 42 | 42 | "All for One, and One for All" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Edorta Barruetabeña | 2 November 2016 | |
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Each kid wants to play a different game, and as they just can't come to an agreement, each one plays by his or her own game. Each one tries to attract Yoko and, as a result, make his/her game bigger and more fun. But the competition among them is so fierce that they lose control of the games and the three games collide.
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| 43 | 43 | "Cloudy Day" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Cristina Broquetas | 3 November 2016 | |
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It's a very hot day and the kids are lying in the field, looking for shapes in the clouds. Of course, everyone sees something different in each cloud. An exhausted Ranger Loops joins them for a moment, and quickly dozes off. Yoko, meanwhile, arrives and gets a little too into the game, bringing the cloud animals to life in the park.
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| 44 | 44 | "Snowball" | Juanjo Elordi | Andy Yerkes | 4 November 2016 | |
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Winter is winding down, but Mai and Oto dearly wish for one last snowfall before springtime arrives in earnest. With a little Yoko magic, they get their wish. The only problem is, Vik, thinking that spring is finally here, is all revved up to show his pals his new favorite game: baseball.
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| 45 | 45 | "Perfect Picnic" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Evgenia Golubeva | 7 November 2016 | |
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It's a miracle. Oto, Mai and Vik all agree on the day's chosen activity: they're going to have a picnic. But they soon find that there's still one thing about the picnic that they can't seem to agree upon: where to have it. Yoko takes them on a magical trip exploring picnic sites - both on Earth and off - until they realize that each of them has to bend a bit on their own idea of a "perfect" picnic before that they can have a picnic that all of them can enjoy.
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| 46 | 46 | "The Yoko Workout" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | P.Kevin Strader | 7 November 2016 | |
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There is a new Obstacle Course in Yoko Park a fun way to stay active and be healthy. For the opening, Ranger Loops will hold a race to see who can go through the obstacles fastest. Oto wants to be in tip-top shape for it, so he chooses a traditional workout with the Ranger and Ronnie the Workout guy. Vik and Mai have a very active adventure with Yoko as they searching for the imaginary Jewel of the Jungle.
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| 47 | 47 | "An A-Mazing Winter Adventure" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Andy Yerkes | 8 November 2016 | |
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It's a wintry day in the park, and Oto, Vik and Mai are having great fun making a snow fort. Ranger Loops comes along with exciting news: she's planning to have a puppet show in a bit in the cabin. She hands them a flyer, which gives a hint at the story. Two knights and a snow princess must find their way through a Snow Beast's labyrinth of ice and snow. The flyer blows away, and the kids, always mindful of keeping the park clean, chase after it.
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| 48 | 48 | "Hello Nature" | Juanjo Elordi | Cristina Broquetas | 8 November 2016 | |
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After observing how hard Ranger Loops works, the kids decide that they'll be Rangers for one day. They focus on keeping people from doing things that may harm the park, but somehow they get a little power-mad, and people in the park, not too fond of their bossiness, start leaving in droves. When the kids see the park so lonely and sad, they realize they need to rethink their methods. With Yoko's magic, they go back in time and start from scratch.
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| 49 | 49 | "Vik Saves the Day" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Claudia Silver | 8 November 2016 | |
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Vik wants to play superheroes. He comes charging into the park with a towel pinned around his neck, ready to play. His friends, however, have other things going on: Mai is helping Ranger Loops to "save" some sunflowers by transplanting them to an area with more sun, and Oto is reliving his heroics in his championship soccer win. It seems to Vik that his friends are really heroic, while he's just the same old Vik, running around with a towel around his neck. Yoko responds by making both of them real superheroes.
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| 50 | 50 | "Doppelgangers" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Cristina Broquetas | 8 November 2016 | |
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The kids are playing soccer. Suddenly Oto decides that what they need is to play another team - so that they can play together. Yoko responds by magically creating doubles of our three kids: another Mai, another Oto and another Vik. They're very excited, but once they start playing, the real Mai, Vik and Oto see their own behavior mirrored by their doppelgangers.
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| 51 | 51 | "What's That Smell?" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Cristina Broquetas | 8 November 2016 | |
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Ranger Loops is so proud of her flowers - it is spring, and everything is in bloom. People have come from far and wide to look at her marvelous work, and, of course, to breath in the heavenly scent. Soon, however, they realize that there is something that smells horrible somewhere, overpowering the sweet scent of her blossoms. When the kids discover that the stink is coming from Yoko, who, as it turns out, has never taken a bath in his life.
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| 52 | 52 | "Outer Space Rocks" | Juanjo Elordi, Juanma Sánchez | Cristina Broquetas | 8 November 2016 | |
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Oto wants to play with his frisbee and Vik wants to play rock collecting. Yoko's magic turns the frisbee into a flying saucer, sending the kids into outer space. Oto's happy because he thinks he's won, but clever Yoko lands them on a rocky planet. Now Vik thinks his choice has won out. The kids have many adventures in space until Oto and Yoko get in trouble with some rocks creatures.
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Season 2 (2019) Episodes
| Story | Episode | Title | Directed by | Written by | Release Date | |
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| 53 | 1 | "Sleep Well, Mr Bear" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Evgenia Golubeva | 22 July 2019 | |
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It's winter and many animals in the Park are hibernating. But Oto can't stop himself from being noisy and he wakes them up. Now the children and Yoko must find a way to help the animals fall asleep again. They try to put the animals back to bed by creating a Dreamland with clouds, stars and sheep to count. They sing lullabies.
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| 54 | 2 | "Busy Bees" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Evgenia Golubeva | 23 July 2019 | |
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A bee swarm has arrived in the park. Yoko asks the bees to leave the park. But things change - flowers don't grow, the natural order of things is broken. Ranger Loops is worried. Yoko and the children go on a quest to apologize and get the bees back. They even meet the queen bee. Finally all the bees come back to the park and everything goes back to normal.
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| 55 | 3 | "A Simple Rescue" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Edorta Barruetabeña | 24 July 2019 | |
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One day, Oto and Mai help an old lady rescue her puppy from some bushes. Later, a little girl goes missing and Ranger Loops and two policemen organize a search party. The kids want to help but the policemen tell them that a rescue is not a game.
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| 56 | 4 | "At Ease" | Dzhalil Rizvanov | Edorta Barruetabeña | 25 July 2019 | |
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Mai wants to teach her friends a dance routine. Vik and Yoko like the idea and try to learn the dance. Vik suggests doing a more energetic dance, with ninja movements. Yoko conjures up a colored dance floor, like a dance video-game. They challenge Oto to pass the first level.
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| 57 | 5 | "Delivery Service" | Stanislav Dobrovsky | Evgenia Golubeva | 26 July 2019 | |
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Oto and friends volunteer to help Ranger Loops deliver a parcel. Mai and Vik are determined to prove to Oto that delivering things can be fun. Thanks to Yoko's magic the kids' delivery service becomes a real adventure with trains, chases and crows wanting to grab the bird food parcel for themselves.
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| 58 | 6 | "The Three Little Friends" | Juanjo Elordi | Edorta Barruetabeña | 30 July 2018 | |
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Two little kids ask Mai to read them the story of "The Three Little Pigs". Mai doesn't want to admit that she can't read and pretends that she is reading, but she is suffering so much that Yoko decides to help her by putting some pictures in the book to guide her. The three pigs in Mai's story look like Mai, Oto and Vik, and each of them tries to improve the role of the pig that resembles them. Finally, when all the characters are happy with the story, even the two little kids, Mai confesses that she can't read yet, but will be able to someday, because she is learning.
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| 59 | 7 | "Back to School" | Unknown | Evgenia Golubeva | 31 July 2019 | |
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Tomorrow is the first day back at school after the holidays. Yoko doesn't know what school is, so Mai and Vik decide to set up a pretend classroom to explain it to him. Oto joins in and - thanks to Yoko's magic - becomes the head teacher. Although at first he is convinced he has much better ideas about how to run a school, Oto struggles with the reality of the task and ends up losing all his pupils on a school outing to the jungle.
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| 60 | 8 | "Oto's Dinosaur" | Juanjo Elordi | Edorta Barruetabeña | 18 August 2019 | |
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Vik has a new wristwatch and is learning to tell the time. Yoko tries to learn how the watch works, but its hands move too slowly for him and, bored, he creates a time machine. The kids travel to different times, finally arriving in the Jurassic Period. Oto finds a small orphan dinosaur and decides to bring it back to the park. Oto realizes that each animal belongs in its own environment.
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| 61 | 9 | "Excellence Award" | Juanjo Elordi | Evgenia Golubeva | 22 August 2019 | |
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Mai and Oto come to the Park and show off their recent awards to Vik. Ranger Loops passes by and tells them that the Park has been given an Excellence Award, too. Vik really wants to win an award as well. Mai, Oto and Yoko invent competitions for Vik so he can get his own award. But he keeps coming second because he always ends up helping his friends. Mai, Oto and Yoko give Vik the "Best Friend Award".
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| 62 | 10 | "The Puddle" | Juanjo Elordi | Juanjo Elordi | 22 August 2019 | |
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The three friends play around a small puddle by the lake with their toys. Oto has a can of salt that his parents gave him to build "a hangar". To avoiding having to go over to the litter bin, which is too far away, he empties the salt into the puddle. Suddenly, Oto realizes that several goldfish and tadpoles are looking ill and trying to escape from the water. Vik runs to warn Ranger Loops while the others try to save the animals.
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| 63 | 11 | "Yoko Park Inspector" | Juanjo Elordi | Evgenia Golubeva | 25 August 2019 | |
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There is a Park Inspector in Yoko Park. The children and Yoko are on a mission to make sure she loves the park, but she keeps putting red stickers everywhere. It seems as if she doesn't like Yoko Park at all. But when she gets involved in the children's and Yoko's imaginative games, it turns out that this lady is not what she seems. It turns out that the red stickers were there to mark what she loved about the park. And it turns out she loved pretty much everything.
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| 64 | 12 | "Gift-Giving Day" | Juanjo Elordi | Edorta Barruetabeña | 25 August 2019 | |
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The year comes to an end and Mai does not know what gift to ask for. Vik does not ask for any gifts at this time of year, because his parents have other customs. Oto has asked for a day at the Crazy Cars Amusement Park, but his parents want him to ask for something more sensible. Mai thinks that maybe it is more exciting to give presents than to receive them. Ranger Loops listens to the children and proposes a game: Secret Santa drawings made of recycled material.
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| 65 | 13 | "The Best Toy in the World" | Juanjo Elordi | Evgenia Golubeva | 28 August 2019 | |
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The children can't decide what would be the best toy in the world - Vik's transformer? Mai's pencil? Or Oto's ball? When Yoko arrives he offers them a wooden stick. With Yoko's magic, it turns out that a wooden stick can be all sorts of things: a sword, a bridge, a stickman, a pole with a flag, a snake, a brush, a raft, a magic wand.
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| 66 | 14 | "The Play" | Juanjo Elordi | Edorta Barruetabeña | 22 October 2019 | |
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An amphitheater has been built in the park and Ranger Loops has organized a children's theatre marathon for the opening day. Mai wants to participate in it, but Vik and Oto have doubts: Vik is embarrassed to act in front of people and Oto is bad at memorizing lines. But Yoko loves the idea, so finally they decide to participate. The show begins and when the friends' turn comes, Oto forgets all his lines, although luckily Mai is able to improvise by integrating Oto's doubts into the play.
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Special Episodes (2020)
Maya Knows: Learning Adventures
The special series spin-off, Maya Knows, first aired on April 30, 2020, on the social network VK. Each episode is only two minutes long, offering a new look at the Yoko series through the character Maya. In every episode, Maya and her magical friend Yoko, along with a squirrel, explore a new topic. Maya shares interesting facts about the world, from painting and French food to the history of photography.
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| 1 | "Landscape" | Daria Yambushev | Daria Yambushev | 30 April 2020 | |
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In the first series, Maya finds out what a landscape is and how it conveys the artist's feelings.
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| 2 | "Fairy Tales" | Stanislav Dobrovski, Daria Yambushev | Stanislav Dobrovski, Daria Yambushev | 2 May 2020 | |
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Maya reads the different fairytales with Yoko and the squirrel. To explore more fairy tales, Maya heads to the library.
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| 3 | "French Cuisine" | Daria Yambushev | Daria Yambushev | 4 May 2020 | |
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Maya learns about the French cuisine. Later they dine with a squirrel.
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| 4 | "History of Photography" | Daria Yambushev | Daria Yambushev, Pavel Kalinichenko | 6 June 2020 | |
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The friends learn amazing facts about the history of photography, from the distant past to the present. They take a montage of pictures with a camera.
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| 5 | "Gravity" | Daria Yambushev | Stanislav Dobrovski | 7 September 2020 | |
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Maya learns about physics and the effects of gravity on a dropping apple. Yoko stays asleep while the squirrel keeps on dropping apples. To enliven the situation, Maya tells Yoko the story of how in the moon, gravity causes everything to float. Yoko finds this story fascinating, and tries to gravitate by meditating. However, he falls down after a few seconds.
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| 6 | "Dinosaurs" | Daria Yambushev | Stanislav Dobrovski | 14 September 2020 | |
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Maya and Yoko learn about dinosaurs. Dinosaurs ranging from land to the aerial forms are studied.
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| 7 | "Rain" | Daria Yambushev | Stanislav Dobrovski | 21 September 2020 | |
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Maya and Yoko find themselves in a rainstorm. This was the perfect situation to learn more about rain. They learn that the sun evaporates water of the ocean into water vapor creating clouds. Then the clouds cause precipitation in terms of rainfall. They also learn that there could be more forms of precipitation. In the end, Yoko sends his umbrella to the sky, and a new precipitation in the form of stars appear.
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| 9 | "Ants" | Daria Yambushev | Stanislav Dobrovski | 5 October 2020 | |
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Maya uses a magnifying glass to study ants. The ants ecosystem and regimented lifestyle is described.
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| 10 | "Solar Eclipse" | Daria Yambushev | Stanislav Dobrovski | 12 October 2020 | |
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It is the time for the solar eclipse. The moon slowly glides over the path of the sun. The friends await the magical event with eclipse glasses.
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| 11 | "Ukulele" | Daria Yambushev | Daria Yambushev | 19 October 2020 | |
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Maya strums the ukulele. Yoko and the squirrel listen to Maya how the ukulele was used as an entertainer in tropical islands throughout history. Yoko magically turns the park into a tropical island. Yoko becomes a ukulele rock star while Maya and the squirrel have a tropical island attire. They all dance to a new ukulele song.
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| 12 | "The Distribution of Debris" | Daria Yambushev | Daria Yambushev | 26 October 2020 | |
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Maya recycles the debris at the park into the right recycling canisters. They are paper, plastic, metal. Yoko and the squirrel also contribute to the recycling process. Yoko not only recycles but also converts the recyclables into a playground.
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Where to Watch Yoko
Yoko is broadcast on many TV channels and online platforms around the world. Here are some of the places where you can watch the show:
| Channel | Country |
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| CTC | Russia |
| O! | |
| Carousel | |
| Mult | |
| Clan TV | Spain |
| EITB | |
| RTVE | |
| BBC Kids | Canada |
| Canal Panda | Portugal |
| Nick Jr. | Italy |
| Netflix | Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, US, Russia, Canada and the Indian Subcontinent |
| Huashi TV | China |
| Sun TV | India |
| Nat Geo Kids | Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Baraem | Qatar |
| Jeem TV | |
| ETV | Estonia |
| MiniMini+ | Poland |
| VTM Kids Jr. | Belgium |
| South Korea | |
| Anibox | |
| Champ TV | |
| Turkey | |
| YLE TV2 | Finland |
| Ukraine | |
| Hungary | |
| Ketnet | Belgium |
| Nick Jr. Too | United Kingdom |
| eToonz | South Africa |
Awards and Recognition
Yoko has been praised for its positive messages for children. Kanal-o, a media outlet, said that Yoko not only entertains but also helps kids grow. It teaches that friendship is more important than winning, and that real fun happens when everyone is having a good time. The show helps characters, and young viewers, learn important lessons and become a little more grown-up. This is why it's popular with both kids and parents.
The series has received awards for its potential to be popular internationally. At the Suzdalfest on March 22, 2015, Yoko won the prize for "Animated Series with the Greatest International Potential." This award was given by Reed MIDEM, the group behind big content markets like MIPTV and MIPCOM, who had also given Yoko the same award before.
| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) and nominee(s) | Result |
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| Reed MIDEM | 2014 | Animated Series with the Greatest International Potential | Yoko | Won |
| Suzdalfest | 22 March 2015 |
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